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Nelson J. Almeida

@njasosayweall

Prehistorian | zooarchaeology & taphonomy addict | Professor - University of Évora | Researcher CHAIA-IN2PAST & Uniarq.

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Sheep and goat management practices at Perdigões (Southern Portugal, 4th millennium BC) via sequential carbon and oxygen isotopic analyses of tooth enamel - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences The archaeological site of Perdigões (Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal) was a centre of social and ceremonial importance with diverse funeral traditions from the middle 4th to the 3rd millennium BC. Pr...

Our new paper about sheep and goat husbandry practices at Perdigões (4th–3rd millennium BC, Portugal) via sequential isotope analysis of tooth enamel is out! @icarehb.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

24.02.2026 12:27 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Lembrar!
Recordad!

26.11.2025 09:52 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Ancient human relative cannibalized toddlers, 850,000-year-old neck bone reveals Cut marks on a child's cervical vertebra found at Atapuerca in Spain suggests Homo antecessor was indiscriminate about cannibalism victims.

The Gran Dolina cave in the Atapuerca mountains of Spain is yielding more examples of cannibalism by H. antecessor, including the newly announced cut marks on a cervical vertebra of a toddler. 🧪🏺

24.07.2025 18:55 👍 58 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 3
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Évora vai receber o quarto TAGi de 5 a 7 de fevreiro de 2026. Mais detalhes estarão disponíveis em breve.

21.07.2025 11:12 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Fossil face found in Spanish cave belongs to first known Western European Ancient remains suggest at least two types of early humans roamed Europe about 1 million years ago
12.03.2025 21:40 👍 24 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

28 days later published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social !
You can find it here: peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

03.03.2025 13:14 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Classroom/Library enrollment was down pretty bad in February. National chaos and uncertainly likely has something to do with it.

Can you help me make sure that all the educators on bluesky know Skype a Scientist exists and is ready to connect them with scientists? Every RT helps!

#EduSky #STEMEd

26.02.2025 03:06 👍 276 🔁 219 💬 6 📌 7

3/3 This is our ⭐️98th⭐️recommendation! We will continue to transparently peer-review your manuscripts and make them free to publish / free to read pieces of citable academic work! Try us, this is the way to go in 2025 ! #OpenScience #openaccess

21.02.2025 07:59 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
How many lives can a polished axe have? A biographical approach ...

2/3 Recommended by @njasosayweall.bsky.social based on reviews by Joao Marreiros, Lars Larsson and Juan Gibja. All editorial work accessible here for full transparency: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

21.02.2025 07:59 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Picture of a polished axe with zoom on a part of the edge showing distinctive polish.

Picture of a polished axe with zoom on a part of the edge showing distinctive polish.

1/3 New recommendation: Tomasso, Cnuts (@palaeoprop.bsky.social), Geerts, Vanmontfort & @veerlerots.bsky.social (2025). From polishing to burning: deciphering a Middle Neolithic hoard from Beringen Brouwershuis (Belgium) through functional analysis. doi.org/10.31219/osf... 🧪🏺 @traceolab.bsky.social

21.02.2025 07:59 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Our paper has reached 10k access in just 10 days!!! rdcu.be/eaePJ

17.02.2025 20:16 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
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When artistic photography meets archaeology!

06.02.2025 12:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📣📣📣📣

22.01.2025 09:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well, alright, Neanderthals (or some groups of Neanderthals) could make and 'interpret' cave art. This makes it all the more pertinent to ask why they, on the whole, didn't engage in this activity.

16.01.2025 10:06 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0